I know I have seen a thing you put under your weather cove that lifts it up so that rain water doesn't pool in the middle of your pit. Anyone know who sells this and anyone have any experience using one? Thanks for your help.

we use a big rubber bucket called a "muck bucket" - available at a local farm store - turned upside down between our top mat and the all weather cover. We try to place this bucket approx. centered in our mats. We had a problem just like yours and this corrected this problem - we have used it on 3 different sets of mats and have had NO problems at all. Just be shure to get a rubber bucket i if you get a plastic one you will have to change it about every 2 to 3 years as the heat and sun will work on the plastic making it brittle. Hope this helps

1yeldud1 wrote:we use a big rubber bucket called a "muck bucket" - available at a local farm store - turned upside down between our top mat and the all weather cover. We try to place this bucket approx. centered in our mats. We had a problem just like yours and this corrected this problem - we have used it on 3 different sets of mats and have had NO problems at all. Just be shure to get a rubber bucket i if you get a plastic one you will have to change it about every 2 to 3 years as the heat and sun will work on the plastic making it brittle. Hope this helps

Gee, you city folks have all the latest gadgets. All we have is a wheelbarrow . . .

Vaulting Incognito "I saw those tubes on your truck, and I thought you were a plumber . . ."

I built a "light weight" pyramid out of wood that I use on my old UCS pit and it's worked perfectly. One person can move it. The key is "light weight" so you aren't making the foam compression/degradation worse. Hurdles are way too heavy. I've seen it. The truss system looks awesome, but obviously not easy to move and seems way too heavy, at least for an old pit.

My dad throws some old sofa cushions in the middle of his pit before we pull the cover over it.You don't really need much elevation. We lay them in a line so they form a small ridge. As long as it is even a little higher in the middle the water runs to the side and doesn't pool.The nice thing about the cushions is that when you pull the cover back you, one kid can just toss the cushions toward the back of the pit. Unlike solutions that involve wood or hard objects ... their is no worry about moving the sofa cushions "a safe distance" away from the pit before jumping